Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Cutting the Chains of Karma: How to Change Negative Habits in 5 Steps

Sometimes our "negative" habits (like anger, pride, jealousy, craving etc.) seem to come up like a cyclone out of nowhere.

Often we might feel powerless to change them, let alone even notice that we are in the grip of what the Buddhists would call a "klesha" attack. "Klesha" may sound like Yiddish, but it's actually Sanskrit for an obscuration, or perhaps, in a more contemporary sense, a neurotic upheaval.

[Following] are five steps toward recognizing and cutting the momentum of negative habitual patterns and klesha attacks.